Subtribe Xanthopygina Sharp, 1884
1010. Darwinilus Chatzimanolis, 2014a: 32 (Fig. 186)
Type species: Darwinilus sedarisi Chatzimanolis, 2014
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Distribution.
South America: Argentina.
1011. Dysanellus Bernhauer, 1911a: 419 (Fig. 189)
Type species: Dysanellus bruchi Bernhauer, 1911
2 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Scheerpeltz 1965b: 277 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2009: 3 (characters); Chatzimanolis 2012: 267 (characters); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 219 (characters), 235 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis 2015c: 17 (characters); Chatzimanolis 2018: 280 (characters).
Distribution.
South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1012. Elecatopselaphus Scheerpeltz, 1972c: 39
Type species: Trigonopselaphus violaceus Sharp, 1876
2 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Distribution.
South America: Colombia, Peru, Brazil.
1013. Elmas Blackwelder, 1952: 146 (Fig. 190)
Type species: Selma modesta Sharp, 1876
Selma Sharp, 1876b: 426 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 146]
Type species: Selma modesta Sharp, 1876
20 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Ashe & Chatzimanolis 2003: 3 (characters); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 220 (characters), 235 (characters in key).
Key: Ashe & Chatzimanolis 2003: 33 (species of the genus); Ashe & Chatzimanolis 2006: 28 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.
1014. Gastrisus Sharp, 1876a: 136 (Fig. 191)
Type species: Gastrisus laevigatus Sharp, 1876
15 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2009: 3 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina.
1015. Glenus Kraatz, 1857a: 541
Type species: Staphylinus biplagiatus Perty, 1830
20 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Sharp 1876a: 147 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 221 (characters), 235 (characters in key).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Brazil, Peru, Bolivia, Paraguay, Argentina.
1016. Haematodes Laporte, 1835: 112
Type species: Haematodes bicolor Laporte, 1835
Platycnemus Nordmann, 1837: 135 [synonymized by Lacordaire 1854: 72]
Type species: Platycnemus lateritius Nordmann, 1837
Platytoma Chevrolat in d’Orbigny, 1847: 263 [synonymized by Lacordaire 1854: 72]
Weiserianum Bernhauer, 1927b: 247 [synonymized by Brunke & Chatzimanolis 2018: 5]
Type species: Weiserianum woltersi Bernhauer, 1927
4 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 114 (characters in key), 115 (characters); Erichson 1839a: 340 (characters); Scheerpeltz 1937c: 340 (characters as Weiserianum); Chatzimanolis 2016: 285 (characters); Brunke & Chatzimanolis 2018: 5 (characters).
Key: Scheerpeltz 1937c: 351 (species as Weiserianum); Brunke & Chatzimanolis 2018: 5 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
South America: Venezuela?, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.
1017. Isanopus Sharp, 1876a: 141 (Fig. 196)
Type species: Isanopus tenuicornis Sharp, 1876
6 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis 2008: 1769 (characters).
Key: Chatzimanolis 2008: 1789 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.
1018. Nausicotus Sharp, 1884: 368
Type species: Trigonopselaphus opacipennis Sharp, 1876
4 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2009: 3 (characters).
Distribution.
Central America: Nicaragua, Costa Rica.
South America: Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina.
1019. Nordus Blackwelder, 1952: 262
Type species: Brachydirus xanthocerus Nordmann, 1837
Brachydirus Nordmann, 1837: 131 [synonymized by Erichson 1839a: 353]
Type species: Brachydirus xanthocerus Nordmann, 1837
39 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis 2004: 6 (characters); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 223 (characters), 236 (characters in key); Aballay et al. 2014: 104 (characters in key).
Key: Scheerpeltz 1971a: 94 ( Brachydirus); Chatzimanolis 2004: 47 (species of the genus); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2006: 105 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1020. Ocyolinus Sharp, 1884: 362
Type species: Ocyolinus rugatus Sharp, 1884
7 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2009: 3 (characters); Chatzimanolis 2017b: 806 (characters).
Key: Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2009: 22 (species of the genus); Chatzimanolis 2017b: 808 (species of the genus). Distribution.
Central America: Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil.
1021. Oligotergus Bierig, 1937a: 204
Type species: Philothalpus oculatus Bierig, 1937
20 species are known from and are restricted to Latin America.
Characters/Description: Sharp 1876a: 133 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Newton & Peck 2006: 152 (characters in key); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 224 (characters), 235 (characters in key); Aballay et al. 2014: 104 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis & Caron 2016: 132 (characters).
Key: Márquez et al. 2004: 30 (some Mexican species).
Distribution.
West Indies: Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Galapagos Isl., Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Argentina.
1022. Paraxenopygus Bernhauer, 1911a: 415
Type species: Paraxenopygus tremolerasi Bernhauer, 1911
3 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 225 (characters), 235 (characters in key).
Distribution.
South America: Peru, Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina.
1023. Phanolinopsis Scheerpeltz, 1968: 67
Type species: Phanolinus discedens Sharp, 1884
6 species are known from and are restricted to Central America.
Characters/Description: Chatzimanolis 2017: 50 (characters).
Key: Chatzimanolis 2017a: 65 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Ecuador.
1024. Phanolinus Sharp, 1884: 363
Type species: Phanolinus flohri Sharp, 1884
35 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 226 (characters), 236 (characters in key).
Key: Scheerpeltz 1968: 55 (species of the genus); Navarrete-Heredia 2005: 891 (Mexican species).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil.
1025. Plociopterus Kraatz, 1857a: 539
Type species: Staphylinus fetialis Erichson, 1839
28 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 229 (characters), 235 (characters in key).
Key: Scheerpeltz 1960: 121 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay.
1026. Scaponopselaphus Scheerpeltz, 1972c: 38
Type species: Trigonopselaphus mutator Sharp, 1876
2 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Chatzimanolis 2015c: 3 (characters).
Distribution.
South America: Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Peru, Brazil.
1027. Scariphaeus Erichson, 1839a: 342
Type species: Velleius luridipennis Runde, 1835
4 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 114 (characters in key), 117 (characters); Scheerpeltz 1936: 531 (characters).
Key: Scheerpeltz 1936: 539 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
South America: Ecuador, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1028. Smilax Laporte, 1835: 116
Type species: Smilax americanus Laporte, 1835
Cordylaspis Nordmann, 1837: 17 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1952: 107 but previously noted by Lacordaire, 1854: 73]
Type species: Cordylaspis tuberculatus Nordmann, 1837
4 species are known from and are restricted to Latin America. Characters/Description: Erichson 1839a: 339–341 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 230 (characters), 235 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis 2016: 285
(characters). Key: Scheerpeltz 1937a: 335 (species of the Cordylaspis); Chatzimanolis 2016: 300 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
West Indies: Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico?, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.
1029. Styngetus Sharp, 1884: 361
Type species: Philonthus viduus Erichson, 1840
16 species are known from and are restricted to Central and South America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 230 (characters), 236 (characters in key).
Key: Navarrete-Heredia 1998: 70 (Mexican species).
Distribution.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1030. Terataki Chatzimanolis, 2013: 252 (Fig. 226)
Type species: Creophilus badiipennis Nordmann, 1837
4 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Key: Chatzimanolis 2013: 263 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
South America: Brazil, Paraguay.
1031. Torobus Herman, 2001a: 29
Type species: Staphylinus purpurascens Nordmann, 1837
2 species are known from and are restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Scheerpeltz 1972c: 37–40 (characters); Chatzimanolis & Ashe 2009: 3–4 (characters); Chatzimanolis 2017a: 50 (characters); Chatzimanolis 2018: 285 (characters).
Distribution.
South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1032. Triacrus Nordmann, 1837: 19
Type species: Triacrus dilatatus Nordmann, 1837
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Characters/Description: Bernhauer 1931: 84 (characters); Chatzimanolis 2015b: 515 (characters).
Distribution.
South America: Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1033. Tricholinus Bernhauer, 1922a: 15
Type species: Tricholinus pehlkei Bernhauer, 1922
Only one species is known from and is restricted to South America.
Distribution.
South America: Colombia.
1034. Trigonopselaphus Gemminger & Harold, 1 868: 597 (Fig. 228)
Type species: Trigonophorus myrtillinus Nordmann, 1837
Lypophemus Bernhauer, 1921a: 74 [synonymized by Strand 1921: 180]
Type species: Staphylinus herculeanus Laporte, 1835
Polyphematiana Strand, 1915: 122 [synonymized by Herman 2001a: 28]
Type species: Staphylinus herculeanus Laporte, 1835
Polyphemus Bernhauer in Bernhauer & Schubert, 1914: 397 [synonymized by Scheerpeltz 1933: 1419] Type species: Staphylinus herculeanus Laporte, 1835
Polyphemus Bernhauer, 1914: 51 [synonymized by Scheerpeltz 1933: 1419]
Type species: Polyphemus banghaasi Bernhauer, 1914
Trigonophorus Nordmann, 1837: 8 [synonymized by Gemminger & Harold 1868: 597]
Type species: Trigonophorus myrtillinus Nordmann, 1837
6 species are known from and are restricted to South America. Characters/Description: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 140 (characters); Bernhauer 1914: 51 (characters); Bernhauer
1921a: 74 (characters); Bernhauer 1931: 84 (characters); Smetana & Davies 2000: 18 (characters);
Chatzimanolis 2015a: 168 (characters). Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 141 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Bernhauer 1921e: 19 (species of the genus); Scheerpeltz 1972c: 40 (species of the genus); Chatzimanolis 2015a: 176 (species of the genus). Distribution. South America: Ecuador, Peru, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
1035. Xanthopygus Kraatz, 1856b: 539
Type species: Staphylinus xanthopygus Nordmann, 1837
Heteropygus Bernhauer, 1906b: 195 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1943: 449]
Type species: Xanthopygus oliveirae Lynch-Arribálzaga, 1884
Lampropygus Sharp, 1884: 346 [synonymized by Blackwelder 1943: 449]
Type species: Staphylinus xanthopygus Nordmann, 1837
40 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Moore & Legner 1979: 37 (chracters); Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 130 (characters); Hayashi
1997: 488 (characters); Blackwelder 1943: 394 (characters in key), 449 (characters); Navarrete-Heredia et al.
2002: 300 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis 2008: 1769 (characters); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 231
(characters), 236 (characters in key); Chatzimanolis & Caron 2016: 132 (characters).
Key: Lynch-Arribálzaga 1884: 131 (species of Buenos Aires province, Argentina); Scheerpeltz 1969a: 109 (species of the genus); Navarrete-Heredia 2004: 12 (Mexican species).
Distribution.
West Indies: St. Vincent & the Grenadines, Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, Argentina.
Other regions: Nearctic.
1036. Xenopygus Bernhauer, 1906b: 196 (Figs. 229–230)
Type species: Philonthus analis Erichson, 1840
Leptodiastemus Bernhauer, 1934d: 215 [synonymized by Chatzimanolis & Caron 2016: 132]
Type species: Dysanellus excellens Bernhauer, 1934
9 species are included in this genus from Latin America.
Characters/Description: Navarrete-Heredia et al. 2002: 299 (characters in key); Caron et al. 2016: 63 (characters).
Key: Irmler 1979: 31 (species of the genus); Irmler 1982a: 206 (species of the genus); Márquez et al. 2004: 30 (Mexican species); Torres-Rodríguez et al. 2012: 233 (characters), 236 (characters in key); Aballay et al. 2014: 104 (characters in key); Caron et al. 2016: 65 (species of the genus); Chatzimanolis & Caron 2016: 140 (Key to the punctatus species group in Xenopygus).
Distribution.
West Indies: Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina.
Other regions: Oceanic.
1037. Zackfalinus Chatzimanolis, 2012: 265 (Fig. 231)
Type species: Zackfalinus kitrinos Chatzimanolis, 2012
20 species are known from and are restricted to Latin America.
Characters/Description: Chatzimanolis 2015c: 17 (characters).
Key: Chatzimanolis 2012: 302 (species of the genus).
Distribution.
West Indies: Trinidad-Tobago.
Central America: Mexico, Guatemala. Belize, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama.
South America: Colombia, Venezuela, Suriname, French Guiana, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia, Brazil, Paraguay.